Murder of Putin critic Nikolai Glushkov ‘made to look like suicide’, probe finds

A coroner has concluded that Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov was strangled in his home by a 3rd celebration. Glushkov who had been vocal of his criticism in the direction of Putin was discovered useless in his south-west London residence in March 2018.
The West London Coroner’s workplace stated there was proof to counsel his loss of life was made to seem like suicide and there had been ‘third-party involvement’, BBC reported.
According to senior coroner Chinyere Inyama, Glushkov was unlawfully killed.
Glushkov sought asylum within the UK in 2010 after fleeing Russia the place he had been accused of fraud because the deputy director of Aeroflot airline. In his 2017 trial in absentia, a Russian court docket sentenced him to eight years after convicting him of stealing £87 million from the airline.

1. After a number of interviews in 4 months, the Home Office has knowledgeable me that my asylum utility is accepted. The undeniable fact that I’m wished beneath the National Security Law exhibits that I’m uncovered to extreme political persecution and am unlikely to return to Hong Kong with out threat.
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Glushkov was as a result of seem on the Commercial Court in London to defend himself, the day his physique was found by his daughter. He was 68 on the time of his loss of life.

Glushkov’s loss of life got here per week after former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia have been poisoned by novichok, a robust nerve agent.
BBC reported that Dominic Biel, the paramedic on the scene remembers that his loss of life appeared “suspicious” and Glushkov’s daughter Natalia’s boyfriend stated, “Don’t touch anything until the police come here – someone’s killed him.”

A pathology report submitted to the court docket summarised that the accidents “could be consistent with a neck-hold, applied from behind, and the assailant being behind the victim.” It added, “There is a lack of injuries to suggest prolonged grappling or restraint with the third party, and a lack of injuries of a defensive nature to the upper limbs.”
The Metropolitan police service’s terrorism unit additionally supplied data just like the coroner’s report. Commander Richard Smith stated almost 2,000 witnesses have been contacted and a motive is but to be established.